In July 2019, I had the privilege of seeing The Rolling Stones in concert as part of their No Filter tour. Now in 2021, concerts seem to be a distant memory, so I dusted off my write-up of the experience and am presenting it here in full. Hopefully it captures a bit of the live music experience that is so lacking from our current situation. Moreso, however, it provided me the oppurtunity to reflect on the meaning of going to a concert at all. I also wrote it as an homage to Hunter S. Thompson, the doctor of gonzo journalism. The piece’s writing, like the events that inspired it, were quite fun.
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Don’t sleep on Screaming Females (Although Tallahassee did)
It’s a tale as old as time: small crowd at a back water spot, and up onto the stage steps somewhere’s hometown heroes, who proceed to lay their life onto the line in a righteous performance. The crowd quietly nods and walks away, the band packs up their instruments into the van. Off to the next city. It shouldn’t be this way – they should always be bigger, always deserve more applause; it never comes. But man, that show.
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Then Play On 